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From: uunet!nvidia!fiedler (Larry Fiedler)
Subject: Getting Synopsys Man Pages Without Tying Up A Synopsys Licence

Here's a UNIX csh alias that I (and other ESNUG readers may) find useful:

	alias synman    man -M /home/synopsys_30b/doc/syn/man

where /home/synopsys_30b is one's Synopsys root directory. 

I use this when writing synopsys shell scripts and don't want to dip into
dc_shell or design_analyzer to get command syntax or descriptions.  (It
relies on the fact that Synopsys' on-line documentation is in man page
friendly formats.)  Here's the alias in action:

  >synman set_structure

	Command Reference    2.  Synopsys Commands          set_structure
 
	NAME
  	        set_structure  Determines if a design is structured
 	                        during optimization.

	SYNTAX
       ...

I also suppose one could add it to their MANPATH environment variable instead.

  - Larry Fiedler
    NVidia